[see -SHIP.] The position of being a commune.
1836. E. Smedley, Hist. France, viii. 174. Edward returned to England, and Philip, having thrown supplies into Tournai, and having rewarded its brave defenders by the restoration of the full rights of Communeship, transferred his Court to Paris.
1858. E. E. Crowe, Hist. France, I. iv. 115. Popular communeship was therefore established in France by the prelates, that the curates might accompany the king to siege or battle, with standards and all their parishioners.
1889. Edmond Fitzmaurice, in Macm. Mag., LXI. Dec., 117/1. Morteau dates back to days when St. Sulpice worked wonders in its woodland chapel; to days of feudal tenure from the Lords of Andelot; to newly-coined communeship in 1792, when forges, blazing on the banks of Rognon, invested the spot with a transitory importance.
1907. [D. L. Brian], Women Types of To-day, iv. 198. As to communeship with men, ‘A woman usually finds it easy to mould herself on the ideal of a man she is with at the moment, provided she admires him’ (Lombroso and Ferrero).
1912. C. W. Previté-Orton, Early Hist. Ho. Savoy, 384. Meanwhile the other small Communes in the south-west were faring still worse. Asti had not found them sufficiently subservient to her will, and, although so weak and young in their communeship, they already felt the ineradicable communal jealousy of a predominant neighbour.
